

Always Sunshine Project Kit
Altenew just released their July Subscription Kits and they are wonderful! For this blog post, I created two projects using the Craft Your Life Project Kit: Always Sunshine and Craft A Flower: Garden Rose.
To celebrate the July Subscription Kits, Altenew is hosting a Blog Hop with loads of prizes and fresh inspriation so come hop with us! You probably came from Emily Midgett and her gorgeous cards.
Craft Your Life: Always Sunshine Kit
If you want to make a showy “Wow” project, you’ll want to try the July Craft Your Life kit. The flowers, leaves and vines are gorgeous! The Craft Your Life Project Kit comes with a 6 x 8 Stamp set and its coordinating Die Set, Stencil, and Embossing Folder. You will want to buy the kit becuase the items included in this kit are not sold separately.
I started by diecutting a template for my stamp. The main stamp is large and to ensure I had it positioned correctely, so it would die cut well, I set the stamp inside the template in my Misti. This little extra step makes for a much better finished project. Next, I stamped the outline with pigment ink and let it dry. I then used the coloring stencils to ink blend the flowers and leaves. I wanted a bit of fresh white so I didn’t use every stencil layer. I just love the look of coloring with stencils. To finish, I used the layering stamps to add detail and then die cut. This is a big stamp, so using foam tape, I attached the die cut to a 5″ x 6 1/2″ panel. The stamp is so beautiful that I kept the rest of the card clean and simple.

- Altenew Craft Your Life Always Sunshine Project Kit
- Altenew Crisp Dye Inks: Cotton Candy, Coral Berry, Rubelite, Mango Smoothie, Warm Sunshine, Orange Cream, Firefly, Green Fields
- Altenew Mini Blending Brushes (These clean up better than my other brushes)
- Altenew Obsidian Black Pigment Ink

Altenew Craft-A-Flower: Rose Garden

Altenew’s Craft-A-Flower kits are favorites that I use frequently. This month kit has roses, which are a classic. And, I LOVE the leaves in this month’s kit! I know I will be pulling the leaf dies out to use with future die kits.
I die cut my roses from pinks from two of Altenew’s designer paper packs and the background is from a just released 3D Embossing Folder. The “keyholes” make lining up the die-cut layers so easy!

- Altenew Craft-A-Flower Garden Roses Subscription Kit
- Altenew Always Sunshine 3D Embossing Folder (This is part of the kit I used above on my first card)
- Altenew Wildflower Paper Pack
- Altenew Enchanting Washes Paper Pack
- Altenew Inked Lotus (Sentiment)
Giveaway Prizes
$300 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $25 gift certificate to 8 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 07/18/2022 for a chance to win.
Altenew will draw 10 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 07/20/2022.
Blog Hop Order
Altenew Blog
Jenny Colacicco
Soraya Maes
Emily Midgett
Karen Brown
Caly Person
Adriana Arminio
Virginia Lu
Verity Biddlecombe
Jaycee Gaspar
Berina Rajakumar
Agnieszka Małyszek
Laurie Patterson
Erum Tasneem
Annemarie Caister
Reiko Tsuchida
Bridget Casey
Terri Koszler
Michelle Burnier
Michelle Short
Tenia Nelson
Linda Westfall
Maryám Pérez
Amy Hill
Mindy Eggen
Penny Pynnonen
Nathalie DeSousa
Angela Brennan
Teri Wilson
LauraJane
Dana Joy
Thanks so much for stopping by! Caly Person and her bright happy cards are next.
Karen
Beautiful cards. I love the leaves of the rose in the Craft Your Life Kit.
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Thanks Carol!
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Your cards are lovely. Beautiful designs.
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Thanks Twana!
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These are both so pretty. I especially like the first one. The white background really makes it stand out.
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Thanks Sharon!
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I LOVE your CAS designs! Gorgeous flowers!
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Thanks Meghan!
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Lovely shading on your flowers!
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Thanks Carmela!
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Beautiful designs! I love the texture on the CAF card!
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Thanks Lauryne!
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Pretty cards
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Thanks Karen!
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Love these 2 sets and your cards are lovely Kenny!
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Thanks Donna!
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Beautiful cards. I love the Garden Rose with the embossed background. Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks Jeanne!
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Your Craft A Flower roses are so sweet! I need to check out that paper you used. Interesting how you used the stencils. I’m going to try to do that. I feel like using the stencils are like cheating – like paint by numbers, but I see how you can use them differently. Thanks for posting!
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Thanks Margi! I like to change things up so I think coloring stencils are a fun and different technique to try for time to time.
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So gorgeous!
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Thanks Mari!
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I love those 2 cards. I also love those leafe dies.
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Thank you!!!
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These are so pretty!
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Thank you Kelsey!
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Thanks for sharing your lovely cards!
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Thanks Sandra!
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Pretty cards!
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Thanks Donna!
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Beautiful cards
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Thanks Angela!
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I love your style. It’s a lovely fresh, clean look!
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Thank you Michelle! I really appreciate your kind comments.
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Love the simplicity of that first card. I’m always looking for stamps to fill a 5×7 card.
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Thank you! It is a GORGEOUS stamp!
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Lovely cards! All new fun products. Thanks for sharing your inspiration.
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Thanks Kathy!
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Lovely cards!
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Thanks Karen!
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Beautiful cards!
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Thank you!
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Nice card shares. Really enjoying the sunshine vine set.
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Thank you!
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